Looking at the well-made barrel, Li Tu nodded. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Although the blacksmith shop has only been open for less than two months, the equipment and technology are already good, and it can produce qualified flintlock pistols.

But Li Tu is a traverser, how can he let the technology stop at the level of a smoothbore gun? What Li Tu really wants to produce is rifled guns. After reading a lot of time-traveling novels in later generations, Li Tu knew that rifled guns were not difficult to make, and with Mini-type bullets, they could produce powerful Mini-style rifles and multiply their combat effectiveness.

Li Tu looked at Genjiro Matsuda and said slowly: "Craftsman, you have made iron cannons all your life, have you ever thought about making an arquebus with a range several times that of an iron cannon?" ”

When Genjiro Matsuda heard Li Tu's description, his eyes lit up and he asked, "What kind of gun is that?" Does the Governor know how? ”

Li Tu smiled: "I know how to do it!" But if I let you make such a gun, you will never be able to leave my power again, and you will have to follow me for the rest of your life! ”

Genjiro Matsuda asked, "Can't you go back to Kagoshima?" ”

Li Tu shook his head and said, "I can't go back to Japan, but I will give you a very high honorarium to let you marry a beautiful wife with two or three rooms and live in a beautiful big house in Deyuan City." ”

Genjiro Matsuda was attracted by the future described by Li Tu, licked his lips and said, "If this is the case, I am willing to make a good gun and not return to Japan!" ”

Li Tu shouted loudly, and then said: "Craftsman, it is easy to make such a good gun, that is, to pull out five rotating groove lines in the chamber of the gun!" ”

Genjiro Matsuda was stunned and asked in surprise, "Pull this groove line?" A flintlock pistol becomes a good gun with several times the range? ”

Li Tu gestured with his hand and said, "With rifling, the lead bullet will rotate when it flies out, and it will be more stable when flying, and the range will increase." ”

Genjiro Matsuda thought for a moment and said, "I didn't know there was such a reason!" ”

Li Tu waved his hand and said, "You just have to build it, and you will know if you make it." The craftsman thinks about how to pull this rifling! ”

Rifling is not a complicated job, and in the twentieth century, guns were made with hand instruments. This Genjiro Matsuda likes to ponder techniques, and Li Tu believes that he can come up with a solution.

Genjiro Matsuda thought about it, and sat down on an anvil despite the fact that Governor Li Tu was standing next to him. He thought for a moment of time, and finally muttered, "If there is a pole with threads cast on it, and the threads of this pole are passed through a fixed Carmen, the pole will rotate at a uniform speed." A steel ball is inserted at the bottom of the rod and grinds into the chamber of the gun to pull out the rotating rifling. ”

Seeing that Genjiro had come up with a way to draw rifling so quickly, Li Tu was overjoyed, patted him on the shoulder, and said loudly, "Then you can quickly make such a device." If you make such a good gun, I will reward you with a hundred taels. ”

Hearing the reward of one hundred taels, Genjiro Matsuda licked his lips excitedly and said happily, "Then the governor is waiting for the good news." ”

Sure enough, ten days later, Genjiro Matsuda made several rifled tie rods. Li Tu didn't know how big the rifling angle was, so he asked Genjiro Matsuda to pull a few more rifled rifled guns with different angles, and used it as an experiment.

Li Tu asked the blacksmiths to make molds, made lead Mini bullets, and went to the shooting range to test fire.

The so-called mini bullet is a kind of lead bullet with a conical protrusion in the front and a conical depression in the back. The diameter of the conical warhead is slightly smaller than the diameter of the chamber, which makes it convenient to reload. The bottom of the warhead is conical and concave, and when fired, the black powder gas compresses the cavity at the bottom of the bullet, forcing the bottom of the bullet to expand, close to the rifling, and make the warhead rotate at high speed under rifling pressure.

The spinning bullet flies steadily, capable of flying longer distances, increasing range.

On the shooting range, the Mini rifle performed well. Even a rifle with an unsatisfactory rifling angle is stronger than an ordinary iron cannon. The best performing rifle steadily hit the target 300 paces away again and again, much to the amazement of Genjiro Matsuda and other craftsmen. They had built the iron cannon bird gun all their lives, but it was the first time they had seen a rifle with such a long range.

Of course, they will be surprised, because Li Tu brought the technology of the 19th century to this era.

The angle of rifling was determined, and the blacksmith began mass production of Mini rifles.

By mid-June, all the irrigation canals of the 30,000 acres of paddy fields had been built, and the floodgates had been opened to release water into the farmland.

In the past, the forest was burned to obtain grass ash and fertilizer, but now that irrigation canals have been built and water is available, the 30 square kilometers of land have become 30,000 acres of fertile land, which has become the dependence of 2,000 reclamation farmers in Deyuan City.

On the day the floodgates were opened, the farmers who had opened the land were inexplicably excited, dancing one by one, celebrating their new fields on the edge of the irrigation canal. Li Tu rode a horse under the scorching sun to patrol the fields, and saw a sturdy man standing in a paddy field crying.

Liturama stopped and asked aloud curiously, "That man, what are you crying about?" ”

When the man saw Li Tu coming, he quickly knelt down, choked up and said, "I cry that there are so many fields to plant now, as long as you work hard, you will have a good life!" In the past, in Zhangpu, I only had four acres of farmland, and I couldn't eat enough all year round! After a pause, the man said again: "Thanks to the big boss who brought us to Xiaoliuqiu, we have such a good day!" ”

Li Tu asked loudly, "Don't you think I charge a high rent?" ”

The man replied, "That's what the big boss deserves!" ”

Li Tu smiled and asked, "That man, what is your name?" ”

The man hurriedly replied: "If you go back to the big leader, the little one is named Gaofeng!" ”

Li Tu nodded and rode away.

Li Tu's fleet shuttled through the Taiwan Strait non-stop, bringing all kinds of supplies to the farmers who had cleared the land. After the irrigation canal was built, Li Tu distributed seeds, buffaloes, and farming tools, and called on farmers to hurry up and plant a season of rice. There is only half of this year, and Li Tu only collects half a year's rent, that is, half a stone of grain rent per acre of land. But in any case, Li Tu is still waiting for the rent of 15,000 stone to make up for the funds spent on land reclamation.

Construction of houses was also progressing quickly, and by mid-June, 250 terraced house dormitories had been repaired, and the peasants had abandoned their tents and moved into dormitories.

Li Tu also brought bricks, limes, glutinous rice and other building materials from Zhangpu County, and built a brick house facing north and south on the north side of the square as his general headquarters. The headquarters is a colonial-era style building, covering an area of more than 300 square meters, with two floors above and a one-story staircase at the bottom, which is very magnificent. Inside there is Li Tu's office, bedroom.

At the door of this brick house, Li Tu hung a large plaque with the three big characters "Governor's Mansion" engraved on it.